LANE, Nicolas, London, 1818

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LANE, Nicolas, London, 1818
LANE's Pocket GLOBE LONDON 1818
An extremely fine 3-inch (7.6cm.) diameter terrestrial pocket globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in hours in both directions and in degrees, the latitude scale at 135°W graduated in degrees, the eclipitic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils, the oceans with the tracks of Admiral Anson, Captain Cook (in 1776), the Endeavour and Commander King's return in 1780, also with the continued tracks of Clerk and Gore after Cook's death, unlabelled, further with a simple wind rose in the southern Atlantic and the Antipodes to London, the continents with Europe, the eastern half of Australia, New Zealand and some other islands outlined in red, North America outlined and shaded in green, showing cities and rivers, Africa showing NEGROLAND, COUNTY of the CAFRES, Country of the Hotentots and other details, Asia divided into GREAT TARTARY, Eastern Tartary, THE EMPIRE OF CHINA, INDEPENDENT TARTARY, PERSIA and MOGULS EMPIRE and showing the Chinese Wall in pictorial relief, Desert of Chamo, Desarts of Arabia and other details, Australia shown separate from New Guinea and Tasmania but with some projected coastline, Tasmania labelled Dimens Land, North America with Canada joined to Groenland and with no northern coastline, but a note for Sea 1772, South America with the northern part labelled Terra Firma and showing Amazons Country and other details, with two iron axis pins, contained in the original spherical fishskin-covered wooden case, the interior laid with two sets of twelve hand-coloured engraved celestial gores laid to the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in degrees on the northern half-set of gores and in hours on the southern half-set, the ecliptic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils and coloured twilight zone, the Milky Way also coloured, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures, without those of LaCaille, the stars to more than two degrees of magnitude, the rims of the case painted red, and with three brass hooks and eyes

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Literature

DEKKER, E., Globes at Greenwich (London, 1999)
STEVENSON, E.L., Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, their History and Construction, vol.II (1921; reprint: London, 1971)
ZÖGNER, L., Die Welt in Händen (Berlin, 1989)

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Lot Essay

Nicolas Lane (sometimes erroneously as Nathanial) was, according to Stevenson, "probably an unimportant printer of maps in London". However, he is responsible for issuing some elegant late eighteenth- and early nineteenth century pocket globes, notable for their attractive cartography and strong colouring. Little is known of him: his first globe, of 2¾-inch diameter, appeared in 1776. Dekker reports him as working between 1775 and 1783, stating that in 1783 he was recorded as living in the parish of Christ Church, Southwark, London. Later, 3-inch diameter globes appeared with Lane's name on. The gores on these globes derived originally from those designed and made by James Ferguson (1710-1776), altered and renamed ADAMS London by Dudley Adams (1762-1839), and subsequently reappearing as LANE's Improved Globe, some retaining the original engraver's name from the Ferguson issue: J. Mynde sc. It is unclear whether Lane was alive to issue the early nineteenth century "Lane's Globe"s, or whether his stock of gores was bought, perhaps following his death, reissued and updated, and marketed under Lane's name. They did certainly appear bearing the names of several other vendors of globes, such as Silberrad, Jacob & Halse and others.

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